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Bear Lake, Minnesota and a Supper Club that had been in the same family for generations. Four generations of mothers and daughters, eighty years that weathers time, strife, and changing tides, culminating in a battle to hold on to a vanishing world.
I have enjoyed all of this authors books to date. It is so unusual for a male author to write books about women, and to get it right. Stradal does just that. He shows that life is messy, can change in an instant, that relationships are never easy and ...more
I have enjoyed all of this authors books to date. It is so unusual for a male author to write books about women, and to get it right. Stradal does just that. He shows that life is messy, can change in an instant, that relationships are never easy and ...more
This author tells an admirable tale of life in the Midwest, its food and its people. Midwesterners from my generation remember fondly the many supper clubs spread throughout Wisconsin and Minnesota (and now realize how unhealthy the meals were!). Stradal focuses mostly on females that make up a community, and does such a great job you'd think you were reading an actual female perspective.
So the women were front and center here, and all but one were interesting gals I'd want to befriend. Not Flo ...more
So the women were front and center here, and all but one were interesting gals I'd want to befriend. Not Flo ...more
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This was a multi-generational story, with four generations floating through this book. It all centered around a supper club that was in the family for almost a century and how each generation liked, disliked, cared for or rejected their role in it. You learn the birth and purpose of what became a staple of small town restaurants and gathering places. Along with the people who worked and those who frequented the establishments. Popular clear up through the sixties and into the seventies, s ...more
This was a multi-generational story, with four generations floating through this book. It all centered around a supper club that was in the family for almost a century and how each generation liked, disliked, cared for or rejected their role in it. You learn the birth and purpose of what became a staple of small town restaurants and gathering places. Along with the people who worked and those who frequented the establishments. Popular clear up through the sixties and into the seventies, s ...more
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